Moveable Jewish & Muslim Holidays Calendar

Enclosed please find a multi-year calendar for the major Jewish and Muslim holidays. We understand that since these days move around on our secular calendar, it can be challenging to keep track of which observances fall when in any given year. We hope you find this information helpful. Each summer in July or August the Chaplains’ Office will continue to send out to all faculty and all administrative offices on campus a memo on religious observances, including a longer list of the holidays most likely to affect the coming school year.

All Jewish and Muslim holidays begin at sundown on the evening before as listed.

Major Jewish Holidays For example, the dates for Rosh Hashanah this year is listed as Sep 14-15, the holiday begins at sundown on Sep 13 and ends at sundown on Sep 15. Dates in bold are yom tov, so they have similar obligations and restrictions to Shabbat in the sense that normal “work” is forbidden.

Major Muslim Holidays

Ashura begins:

2017: sundown, September 30 to sundown, October 1
2018: sundown, September 19 to sundown, September 20
2019: sundown, September 9 to Sundown, September 10
2020: sundown, August 29 to Sundown, August 30

Ramadan:

2017: sundown, May 26 to sundown, June 25
2018: sundown, May 15 to sundown, June 14
2019: sundown, May 5 to sundown, June 4
2020: sundown, April 23 to sundown, May 23

Eid al Fitr:

2017: sundown, June 25 to sundown, June 26
2018: sundown, June 14 to sundown, June 15
2019: sundown, June 4 to sundown, June 5
2020: sundown, May 23 to sundown, May 24

Eid al Adha:

2017: sundown, September 1 to sundown, September 2
2018: sundown, August 21 to sundown, August 22
2019: sundown, August 11 to sundown, August 12
2020: sundown, July 30 to sundown,July 31

Major Jewish Holidays

All Jewish Holiday observance begins at sundown the day before and continue to sundown at the end of the final day. Dates in bold are yom tov, so they have similar obligations and restrictions to Shabbat in the sense that normal “work” is forbidden.